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Words by JAMES WEBSTER<br />
Photographs as credited<br />
While shark finning has become a multibillion<br />
dollar business for the lucrative sale of shark fin<br />
soup it has also become a huge threat to the<br />
world’s shark population. Shark finning refers to<br />
the removal of the shark’s fin, usually while it is alive with<br />
the fish being thrown back into the ocean without its<br />
fin. Unable to swim they sink to the bottom of the ocean<br />
and die. In many countries the practice has been banned,<br />
requiring sharks to be brought back to port, whole. In many<br />
countries the sale of shark fins has been banned.<br />
Alexander Vasenin commons.wikimedia.org<br />
Shark finning refers to<br />
the removal of the shark’s<br />
fin, usually while it is alive<br />
with the fish being thrown<br />
back into the ocean<br />
without its fin.<br />
This aside, shark<br />
flesh can be quite<br />
delectable if<br />
prepared properly.<br />
In fact, shark has<br />
been passed off<br />
as more expensive<br />
fish species in<br />
restaurants and<br />
fish shops worldwide for many years without, for the most<br />
part, being detected. If your order a dish of Rock Salmon,<br />
chances are you are eating shark.<br />
The topical waters of the Philippines, lying along the<br />
equator, bestrides shark migratory routes enabling it to play<br />
host to more than 150 of the 400 shark species that roam<br />
the world’s oceans with the Whitetip reef shark and tiger<br />
shark being the most popular caught by anglers among the<br />
Philippines Islands.<br />
In the Philippines, most sharks are not protected. Only the<br />
whale shark and manta are protected nationally. Sharks<br />
are also a great sport to catch, so don’t throw them back<br />
prepare them for the table.<br />
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